Japanese Wood Working Joints
Centuries before the invention of screws and fasteners japanese carpentries created their own beautiful and effective woodworking joints known as joinery closely related to japanese architecture.
Japanese wood working joints. Vises of any sort are used far less in traditional japanese carpentry than would be the case for equivalent tasks in the traditional crafts of the west. The project is ongoing as the creator continues to seek new information about this fascinating tradition from books magazines and other archival sources. At the time of writing he has created gif illustrations of 81 traditional wood joints. To show the most amazing view of traditional japanese wood joints.
The wood was inserted under the wedge and the wedge hammered down. The traditional japanese vise was a wedge of wood tied to a post with a coil of rope. For this month a lot of people who loved my previous videos have asked me to show them the skills of the great master wood joinery. The key to this joint is accurate layout and the key to accurate layout is a story stick that.
The kanawa tsugi translated as a half blind tenoned dadoed and rabbeted scarf joint is used to splice two pieces of wood together end to end. It is the work of tightly slotting together pieces of timber or lumber to hold together and produce more complicated items. We decided to make a video about amazing the art of traditional japanese wood joinery i edited the script rewrote the content new voices were recorded new effects work new music new footage. It s a strong interesting joint that andrew hunter cuts by hand.